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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people. However, such a plethora of extremist fundamentalist Muslims as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Mr. President, Just Shut The H*ll Up

Nick Reiner, 32, the cocaine addicted and schizophrenic son of famed Hollywood sitcom actor, prolific...

The Recipe of the Week from the Happy Chef: Scallops Risotto

Like 99.9% of all other Americans entering the New Year, I am on a health kick! But my resolution is not to start...

A Perspective on New Year’s Resolutions

  I have never been on for New Year’s resolutions.  It just seems like another thing to make me feel like I have “failed”...

Hiking Hadrian’s Wall with the Spirits of the Centurions

Eighteen-year-old Philip drives us to Cawfields, where we plan to begin our hike. We spent last night at his family’s 300-year-old stone farmhouse, and...

What’s in a Name?

Early in the academic year, I led my junior-level biology students into the forest behind North Cross School to identify some of the native...

A Tale of Two Historians

How does this sound for the beginning of a successful, productive life? You are scheduled to take holy orders, you study fervently and devotedly...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Nine Bean Soup

I went into my daughter’s room last night all full of emotion and I said with tears in my eyes, “I am going...